FAITH IN ACTION
The following ORGANISATIONS are supported and endorsed by Revive. VARIOUS CHURCHES TAKE THE LEAD AND responsibility FOR EACH ONE and it sits within their governance. SOME aRE charity in THEIR own right SO it’s governing body will include a minister from a LOCAL church. All are affirmed by the steering group who are a representation of various Rugby churches.
THESE ORGANISATIONS RELY ON VOLUNTEERS TO MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN. IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED THEN THEY WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Hope4 believes that everyone should have a place to call home: somewhere safe, secure and sustainable. At the Hope Centre we provide practical support for homeless people: hot food, showers, laundry, clothing and basic health care, plus support with longer term issues such as finding accommodation, UC claims, jobs, immigration status application and IT access. We have also set up and supported the churches running the Winter Night Shelter.
Rugby Foodbank has been open since 2012 and its supporters and volunteers work to ensure that no one need be hungry in Rugby during a crisis. Click below to find out more.
The Gift of Years, Rugby, is a team of Christians from the local churches who are showing the love of God through the pastoral and spiritual care of residents, relatives and staff within residential care homes for older people. Volunteers are involved in visiting and befriending, assisting with services of worship, music and some activities.
Make Lunch is a lunch club which meets in the main school holidays providing meals that matter for families in our community. The volunteer team, drawn from churches in the Rugby area and from the wider community, provides healthy meals and fun enriching activities twice a week. Sharing God’s love is at the heart of what we do, creating a safe and welcoming community that is a lifeline for vulnerable families.
Rugby Street and Prayer Pastors is a Revive ministry, with team members from across a wide range of churches in Rugby. They serve the night time economy in the town centre of Rugby on Friday and Saturday nights between 10pm and 4am to care, listen and help, just as Jesus did to those he met.
To overcome the impact of the pandemic, all of us need to build relationships, heal our minds and bodies and intentionally restore our communities. We need a sense of our own value and contribution too - because every one of us matters.
Compassionate Rugby acts through the power of conversation and connection. We do this with befriends - our 'Compassionate Neighbours', listening services in GP surgeries, support groups and Story Circles - guided conversation meetings.
Since its launch in 2010, the Rugby Christians Against Poverty centre has been helping local people become debt free. Our centre is a part of CAP nationally. Many churches in the Revive network have invested in the centre through praying, giving financially and sending people to serve on our enthusiastic team.
Rugby Youth for Christ is a team of Christians who are committed to Taking the Good News relevantly to every young person in Rugby. Supported primarily by the Christian church communities within Rugby, it works cooperatively with other groups and agencies to serve the town’s secondary schools and their pupils.
Oasis Counselling Services provides a sensitive, professional and confidential counselling service working within the ethical guidelines as defined by The Association of Christian Counselling (ACC).
All our counsellors are professionally qualified and have some years of counselling experience.
OTHER ORGANISATIONS WITHIN RUGBY
Bilton House is a residential home with a Christian ethos, offering care for the elderly. Within a caring environment, residents are supported to be as independent as possible.
The Registered Care Manager leads a dedicated team of over 50 staff to ensure that Bilton House is more than a place to live - it is home.
HOPE Together is a catalyst for local mission in villages, towns and cities. They are here to serve the church in Rugby as well as nationwide.
Tools with a Mission is a UK-wide Christian charity that collects usable donated tools, refurbishes them, pack them into trade tool kits, and send them to African skills training centres for livelihood creation.
They usually send 16 containers full of over 14,000 tool kits every year. These tool kits go to over 500 local organisations set up by local people. Their work helps to keep over 400 tonnes of tools out of UK landfills every year.
The charity’s main aim is to bring about community transformation by creating strategic partnerships, which open up opportunities for crime and disorder reduction and improved community cohesion. This partnership approach has seen crime and anti-social behaviour fall and fresh hope brought to some of the most deprived and challenging areas of the UK, urban and rural alike.
The Leamington (and Rugby) Vineyard Learning Centres exist to support, encourage and help young people, to better fulfil their individual, unique potential and to avoid the perils associated with school exclusion and anxiety.
With a focus on numeracy and literacy, LVLC and RVLC aim to raise young peoples' achievement levels and work towards their re-integration into mainstream schooling in Warwickshire. The Rugby learning centre has opened in September 2017 to serve the needs of students in the borough.